President Covfefe, our beloved troll in chief, has reportedly requested a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue for either Memorial Day, Independence Day, or Veterans Day. Historically ignorant leftists and anti-Trump Republicans insist honoring our military is unprecedented and will destroy the republic. Then, Elisha Krauss and Erielle Davidson join to discuss breaking news that Barack Obama lied over Hillary's FBI investigation, more breaking news that Clinton hatchet man Sid Blumenthal may have kicked off the Russia investigation, Canada’s illiterate Prime Minister Ken Doll Justin Trudeau's changing "mankind" to "people-kind."
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President Covfefe, our beloved troll-in-chief, has reportedly requested a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue for either Memorial Day or Independence Day or Veterans Day.
The left and anti-Trump Republicans, historically ignorant, frequently wrong, but never in doubt, insist that honoring our military is unprecedented and will destroy the republic.
We will analyze the illustrious history of military parades in the United States and how Trump should stage it.
Then, Alicia Krause and Ariel Davidson joined to discuss breaking news.
Last night, Fox News released a shocking report on texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok And Lisa Page showing that James Comey, former FBI director, ordered the two agents to prepare an update on ongoing investigations because, quote, POTUS wants to know everything we're doing, which shows that Barack Obama was lying through his teeth, surprise, surprise, when he said on national television that he did not interfere with the attorney general or FBI directors about pending investigations.
Then, variations on a theme, Trey Gowdy has all but admitted that the source of information, To be passed to Hillary's State Department, to be passed to Dossier Arthur Christopher Steele, to be passed to Barack Obama's FBI was none other than Clinton hatchet man Sidney Blumenthal, meaning that the entire Russia collusion investigation circus may have likely been a charade funded, orchestrated, and executed by Clinton cronies to undermine Trump's campaign.
Shocking, isn't it?
And in the most important news, Canada's Prime Minister Kendall, Justin Trudeau, wants to change the word mankind to peoplekind because he's illiterate.
I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Alright, the president is destroying the country.
Did you know that?
He's destroying the country again!
We're all gonna die!
And I know you already died from tax reform and deregulation, and moving our embassy in Israel to the capital of Israel, and appointing an originalist to the Supreme Court, and reinstituting the Mexico City policy, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord?
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You undead drone, wandering through the world suffering death after death, but relentlessly existing!
The new mainstream media hysteria is that President Trump wants to have a military parade.
I wish I had pearls on that I could clutch in gray.
It's so horrible.
Here is Rear Admiral John Kirby, who was the State Department spokesman under Barack Obama, explaining why he hates the parade idea.
So, Admiral Kirby, what do you think of the idea of a military parade in Washington?
I don't like it, Alison.
Not at all.
This is not about showcasing our military.
This is about the president showing off.
This is all about his ego.
And that's just an inappropriate use of military time and talent and resources.
The second thing is this is beneath us as a nation.
We are the most powerful military on earth.
We're very proud of that and rightly so.
We don't need to be parading our military hardware down Pennsylvania Avenue to To show that to anybody.
And thirdly, I think it's just a waste of resources.
It will cost millions of dollars.
That's money that could be put to other better uses, operations, training, not to mention just even just taking care of our people, spouse education programs, that kind of thing.
So I think this is just a tremendously bad idea.
The trouble with this analysis, Kirby comes out and he says, this isn't what we do in America.
It's okay, we like the military, but we don't parade our troops down the streets.
We don't need to show other people our tanks or our missiles.
It's un-American.
It's what people do in other countries and dictatorships.
And the military hates it and the country hates it, and we've never seen it before, and it's awful.
The trouble with that analysis, and I've heard this repeated ad nauseum all morning, is that it isn't true.
I understand people say, it reminds me of Soviet Russia.
Oh, it reminds me of the North Korea.
Okay, yes, other places have military parades too.
The United States has regularly paraded soldiers and tanks and missiles through the streets of the capital and other cities for over 150 years.
Just a quick history of these.
After the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson held a military parade of 145,000 Union soldiers parading down Pennsylvania Avenue.
The procession, known as the Grand Review of the Armies, took place over two days, May 23rd and 24th, three years and six days before the first Memorial Day was celebrated.
After World War I, the U.S. held military parades in New York, D.C., countless other cities, to greet doughboys as they returned from the battlefield.
That's what sweet little Lisa calls me, by the way, as a doughboy.
I don't think it's for the same reason.
General Blackjack Pershing led the parade of thousands of soldiers through the streets of New York on September 10, 1919, and then he led another parade of thousands of soldiers through the streets of D.C. about a week later.
We also had military parades in 1942 and 1946.
The 1942 parade in New York lasted for more than 11 hours.
It was attended by 2 million people.
That parade even featured a gigantic bust of Franklin Roosevelt, of the president.
They pulled a gigantic head of FDR down the street in the 1942 parade.
And yet we're told to have a little military parade in America today would be awful.
It would be Trump becoming a dictator.
As far as I can tell, the current preparations don't include a gigantic Trump head on a float, but who knows?
Things could change.
In 1946, a military parade was held in New York to celebrate the Allied victory in World War II.
The 1946 parade saw some of the largest self-propelled howitzers in the entire army rolling down the streets of New York.
Tanks rolling down the streets of New York.
In 1953, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, another event where we're commemorating a guy, where we're commemorating the inauguration, there were 73 bands, 59 floats, and lots of military assets, including an 85-ton atomic cannon that could fire a shell 20 miles.
Tanks as far as the eye could see rolled through Washington.
Guess what happened four years later?
And again, this wasn't to celebrate a particular victory in a war.
This wasn't to celebrate something else other than this guy's inauguration.
At Eisenhower's second inauguration, thousands of troops marched three miles down Washington with countless tanks rolling alongside.
Plus, the 69-foot-long Redstone...
Which was the first ballistic missile successfully fired by the United States.
Missiles, tanks, thousands and thousands of troops all marching down the road.
Four years later, so we had 53, 57, now in 1961 at JFK's inauguration, dozens of missiles were paraded in front of the world, including the Nike Zeus, which was the first missile that could intercept ballistic missiles.
So we're being told now by the left and Trump critics and former Obama administration officials, we don't need to show our military equipment off.
We would never do that.
It would be such a step backward, so small minded of the United States if we ever showed off our military equipment.
We've been doing it for well over a century.
We've been doing it regularly.
We did it 53, 57, 61.
We did it in four year intervals for a while.
And that's not just missiles.
During the JFK parade, even huge Navy boats were towed down Pennsylvania Avenue, with Kennedy aboard waving to the throngs on boats that specifically resembled the one that he himself commanded in World War II. In more recent history, in 1991, President George H.W. Bush held a massive military parade in Washington.
Here's the coverage then.
Good evening.
Well, already they are saying tonight it was the biggest military celebration in the nation's capital since World War II, as Washington today honored the U.S. servicemen and women who fought in the Gulf War, both those who returned and those who died.
200,000 enthusiastic spectators watched a parade of troops and their weapons, all part of the national victory celebration.
Eric Engberg has our report.
It was a day for saying thank you to heroes.
The president choked back tears several times as he spoke directly to loved ones of those who died.
On the wide boulevards just a few blocks from the White House, 8,000 Desert Storm troops were moving out.
And once again it was General Norman Schwarzkopf who set the cadence, leading the way as far as the presidential box where he spent the rest of the parade as cheerleader and spotter for a clearly delighted George Bush.
So much military hardware was moving that at times it appeared Washington was under attack.
We're here just to say thank you and to celebrate our victory, but to say thank you to all the men and women who serve in the armed forces.
I think that this is a wonderful occasion, but we don't want it to happen again, because we don't want war.
Wonderful.
And of course that's the sentiment.
We don't want war.
We want to honor the service and the sacrifice of our troops.
Tanks rolling through Washington, D.C. We're now being told that the streets would all crack if we drove tanks down them.
We've done this plenty of times and it's just fine.
It looked like Washington was under attack, but that's what these parades look like.
So after that war, after the Persian Gulf War, Iraq Part 1, tributes were held nearly every day to welcome home troops, though the largest celebrations were held in New York.
Yes, there's plenty of precedent for this.
Don't get that out of your mind.
Nevertheless, many leftist commentators still object.
Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian and insufferable lefty, said on CNN, What are they going to do?
Stand there while Donald Trump waves at them?
It smacks of something you see in a totalitarian country, unless there's a genuine, earnest reason to be doing it.
Now, the historian Wilfred McClay observed in 2006 that Douglas Brinkley has failed to, quote, put forward a single memorable idea, a single original analysis, or a single lapidary phrase.
Likewise, the author Bill Bryson has called Brinkley a minor American academic and sometime critic whose powers of observation and generosity of spirit would fit comfortably into a proton and still leave room for an echo.
Absolutely right.
The sentiment is totally wrong, and even on the historical points he's making, they're just not true.
The White House, for its part, also rejects the notion that a military parade is totalitarian, saying that it would be a celebration of the men and women who give us freedom, who protect our freedom.
That's the opposite of a totalitarian government, they say, and that's true.
Brinkley says we should only have parades when there's a genuine, earnest reason to be doing it.
Sure.
Now, by the way, this wasn't always the case in the middle of the century.
We had three back-to-back, four years, four years, four years, that were not being done earnestly to celebrate some war victory or something.
Though clearly there was a strategic purpose.
It was to frighten our enemies.
It was to frighten the Soviet Union.
Just as today we have enemies that we could reasonably frighten and show off our bigger buttons.
That's exactly why, though, there has been a groundswell in support in recent years for a military parade, like the one we're talking about, to honor veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why shouldn't we honor them?
The last military parade we held in Washington was to honor the veterans of the last major war we concluded, but the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, who served their country admirably after the September 11th terrorist attacks, they've never had their own parade.
They've never had that moment.
That's why even Chuck Schumer has called for this parade.
In 2014, Schumer held a press conference, and I know this is shocking because the most dangerous place in the world, as we all know, is not in the Middle East on the fighting grounds or in the air or on the sea.
It's the space between Chuck Schumer and a television camera.
I digress.
Schumer held a press conference on Broadway at Bowling Green, right by statues of George Washington, where Washington gave his farewell to the troops.
And he said, with the war in Afghanistan winding down, now is the time to keep with longstanding American tradition and kick off a campaign for the first New York City welcome home parade for troops that served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For the first, that implies multiple parades that he's suggesting.
He goes on, with the completion of the Afghanistan combat mission expected at the end of this year, and with Iraq's official end far behind us, it's time for New York to stake its claim and for the Department of Defense to join in planning this welcome home celebration.
Then, joining the chorus of calls for a military parade to honor those veterans, came none other than New York's Bolshevik Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Even Bill de Blasio said, quote, The brave men and women who have selflessly served our nation with courage and skill in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve a recognition for their sacrifice.
I stand with Senator Schumer in his call for a parade to honor our veteran heroes and New York City would be proud to host this important event.
I'm glad we all agree.
I'm glad you agree, Chuck, and I'm glad you agree, Bill, and I fully expect you to keep your mouth shut while President Trump plans the new one.
So what happened?
Why no parade?
There's a point here.
There's no parade because the war in Afghanistan was still basically in full swing.
By that time, 75% of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan had occurred under Barack Obama's watch.
That was in 2015, 2014-2015.
Barack Obama, who insisted on restarting a war that we'd already won because he had to balance out his vocal criticism of the Iraq war, which he recklessly chose to lose because his opposition to Iraq failed.
It was central to his winning the Democratic nomination over Hillary Clinton.
The Defense Department under Barack Obama felt it would not look good to host a parade for military veterans until the war in Afghanistan was completed.
The trouble is that our current operations in Afghanistan have increasingly become a stabilizing mission, what might be called a war of empire.
So they're still fighting.
But the fear of pulling U.S. troops out is that the country will then fall into disarray again and provide a safe haven for terrorists who have to go right back in.
And we know it was already doing that for the years before September 11th, which is the reason we had to intervene in the first place.
So if that's the kind of war that we're engaged in, then there can be no clear moment of victory, no mission accomplished manner.
It might look like Korea.
We've had troops stationed in Korea to prevent the outbreak of new violence for 61 years.
Afghanistan is the longest war we have ever engaged in.
16 years and counting, number one on the list.
After that, that's followed by the Moro Rebellion, which is a war that absolutely no one knows about.
It was one in which Muslim tribes living in the southern Philippines attacked U.S. troops after the U.S. government told them that they would continue their old protectorate relationship with Spain.
We got bogged down into that rebellion for 14 years.
That's followed by the Northwest Indian War at 10 years, the Iraq War at 8.8, Revolutionary War at 8.4, Vietnam at 8.1, the Second Seminole War at 6.7, the First Barbary War at 4.1, the Civil War at 4.1, And World War II at 3.7.
It's interesting to note that a full 40% of those wars, possibly more if you count the war against ISIS separately, a full 40% of the longest wars in US history have been defending against Muslim forces, something that isn't talked about very much, and it's a strange quirk of US history.
Now, that is by no means a list of the deadliest wars in US history.
That list goes Civil War, World War II, World War I, Vietnam, Korea, the Revolution, 1812, Mexican-American War, Iraq and Afghanistan combined as one conflict, and the Philippine-American War.
So, what do we do about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Part of the reason we haven't had a parade is that they've been so politicized by the left since the beginning.
And we might keep troops in Afghanistan for decades.
We might not pull all of them out right away.
So, can we honor the veterans who signed up to protect our freedom after the worst terrorist attack on American soil on September 11, 2001?
We have parades and demonstrations for a lot of other things.
I'll just refresh your memory of the last year.
Pussy hats, gay pride, Super Bowl.
There are a lot of parades.
Actually, that Super Bowl parade, I think, is just when they torched Philadelphia.
But that's a separate demonstration.
Is it really so awful to celebrate and thank our troops?
Reports indicate that President Trump is considering hosting the parade on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July or Veterans Day.
Not on a random Tuesday, not just on his birthday or something like that.
All of the reports say he's got those dates picked out for the parade.
Of the three, Veterans Day seems like the best time to me.
That's a time when we're already honoring the troops.
Fourth of July celebrates the founding of our country.
Veterans Day seems like the right way to do it.
If it's done right, not only will it not be an unprecedented threat to the republic or whatever they're saying it is, it will be admirable and long overdue.
Comfortable Americans have had the privilege of keeping war out of their minds for the most part since 9-11 because of the brave men and women who answered the call of duty and defended our freedom overseas.
A parade through the streets of Washington, D.C. to honor them, if done right, could go a long way toward focusing Americans' attention on just what our country has been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and to remind us that our freedom doesn't come free but instead has been purchased at a high cost, that we are so privileged in this could go a long way toward focusing Americans' attention on just what our country has been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and to remind
And Donald Trump, in suggesting this military parade, which is in well-keeping with U.S. tradition, seems to be provoking the left into attacking our military like lunatics, It's a really bad look for them.
Donald Trump is very good at putting his adversaries into a corner and making them defend the indefensible, making their true colors shine through.
It looks like what's happening here.
Fine by me.
Seems like a lot of good things are being accomplished in it.
Okay, we've got to get to our panel.
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And you took Ariel away from me.
Marshall also took Ariel away from me, but that's fine.
That means that I get Alicia all to myself today.
I thought I was going to have to wait until the conversation, but I get Alicia all to myself.
Alicia, thank you for being here.
Of course.
So the first thing, I need your thoughts.
What do you think about this parade?
I got to say, reading the report, at first I was kind of like, eh.
And then I really came to the conclusion that you did.
And I...
I'm a child of the 80s, and I remember marching after Operation Desert Storm, as you mentioned.
I also remember reading the general's biography, and I think it's the first time I'd asked my mom what the F word was, because there was lots of those, as in most military books by generals.
I remember reading Schwarzkopf's biography.
But I think that really, these things exist.
I mean, I have friends that were recently at the Rose Bowl.
You have flyovers.
You have the national anthem.
You have the beautiful flag displays on the field.
These things already kind of exist.
So I have mixed feelings on it.
I think that it is okay to show support of the military.
I think that it is important to, especially after the horrible way that our Vietnam veterans were treated, coming home from Vietnam, to continue to show past, present, Military members and servicemen and women are appreciation for them.
But I think that as a Trump sometimes skeptic, I also get how some people jumped to the, oh God.
He's Mussolini.
He's Kim Jong-un.
It just adds fodder to the argument that he is this evil dictator Donald.
And I think that he needs to be very careful not to play into this.
And I have to say, I'm a fan of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but today I listened to the press conference that she did live, and her answers to this were very vague and very unclear.
And I think that they just need to come out swinging with their talking points of, this is what the president meant, this is who it came from, this is the purpose for it, and we're looking into options.
But when they don't answer direct questions, it feeds into the negative narrative.
Yeah.
That's right.
And I think there is a little bit here of Chesterton's the thought that stops thought.
I think a lot of people, the society is so postmodern.
We've questioned so much of even our own institutions, even the premises of our government, of our society, that now in the fashionable elite circles, Military service is taboo.
Oh, it's so not nice.
Those men, they shoot guns.
Sometimes they shoot them at brown people.
Let's forget about that.
We can't acknowledge that.
But, of course, the military are the guys who defend our freedom.
There are a lot of people who don't like our freedom and our government, and they want to attack us.
And it is important, I think, to remember, especially in an era where something like 1% of the country has ever served in the military, 1% to 3%, that we remind ourselves that the reason that we can have lovely political debates and make art and movies and write books, and in my case, not write books.
- Blank books.
- Yeah, write blank books and have a nice life is because there are rough men out there who are shooting guns on our behalf and keeping the bad guys away.
That's absolutely right.
They're gonna say it's fascism, but they say everything with Trump is fascism.
They say that deregulation is fascism.
I don't know how they got to that.
Okay, so again, variations on a theme.
There are new FBI texts that are exposing...
Doozies.
These are unbelievable.
Because it gets to Barack Obama.
In typical Trump fashion, the president tweeted, quote...
New FBI texts are bombshells.
All caps, of course.
The new texts show FBI agent Peter Strzok, I pronounce it Strzok-Zok-Zok-Zok-Zok because it's like 75 consonants and no syllables, telling fellow agent Lisa Page that FBI director James Comey wanted them to prepare an update on investigations because, quote, POTUS wants to know everything telling fellow agent Lisa Page that FBI director James Comey wanted them That's the same POTUS, you'll remember, who said on national television that he would never participate in or politicize any agency investigation.
Here's Barack Obama.
Thank you.
I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations.
I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations.
We have a strict line and always have maintained it, previous presidents.
Just to button this up.
I guarantee it.
I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case.
Full stop.
Period.
And she will be treated no differently?
Guaranteed.
Full stop.
Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.
Even if she ends up as the Democratic nominee.
How many times do I have to say it, Chris?
Guaranteed.
I guarantee it.
How many times do I have to say it?
How many times?
Full stop.
Full stop.
Barack Obama is so good at looking like the president and looking like he's telling the truth, and he's so good at playing, except he isn't.
He's this corrosive, corrupt, awful figure who really did significant harm to the country and to the government, lying to your face and saying, I am putting all my credibility on the line.
Full stop.
Full stop.
Alicia, is this proof positive that Barack Obama may have been lying?
Not may have.
It was obvious.
And there's other things that he misled and blatantly lied about to the American people.
Iran deal, anyone?
In the Bible Belt, we would call this a crock of crap because you can't, you know, that's the closest to a curse word as I can get.
That's some of the cleanest language we ever have on this show.
And I think that that is a crock of crap.
And good for Chris Wallace there.
I think if it had been a more friendly interview, we wouldn't have that soundbite all these years later.
And in addition to this text message between these FBI lovers, by the way, saying, hey, the director wants us to keep him apprised of what's happening so he can tell the commander-in-chief, the president of the United States, what's up, means, one, that the Obama administration knew.
In addition to that, they probably, were they aware of the fusion GPS that Were they aware of this dossier?
Were they aware of how the FISA warrant was obtained?
I think any reporter worth their grain of salt who gets an opportunity to talk to Barack and Michelle Obama, even though they've left the White House, should definitely bring that up.
And loose lips sink ships.
These are just the loose text messages that we happen to see about this, that they happen to write down very stupidly.
I mean, you should never send a text or an email that you're not comfortable having on the cover of the New York Times.
But...
They just let these ones go.
What aren't we seeing?
What was going on that we can't see?
There has to be other communications and there has to be emails.
And I want to see the broad brush of the timeline of what was happening with the White House, what was happening during the Clinton and Trump campaigns, and what was happening during the investigation at this time with these now memos and emails and text messages and everything that we're going to see as they're opened up to the American public.
So we now see that Barack Obama himself, all the way up to the president, was inserting himself into what should have been independent agency investigations during the 2016 campaign.
Investigations that pertained to Hillary Clinton.
We have a lot of evidence that the initial Russia investigation was triggered by Democrat money, by Democrat operatives, some with ties to the Clintons.
Does all of this taken together, all of this rancid stench from Barack Obama's politicized agencies, does it undermine the Mueller investigation?
I think, unfortunately, it does.
And I think that, you know, obviously, and I think that the United States should take very seriously, and I think that Trump shouldn't take it so personally, that there's this investigation into Russia's meddling.
And they're two separate things.
It's, did Russia meddle in the investigation, I'm sorry, in the election?
Probably.
But that doesn't mean that they necessarily meddled in it for the purpose of Trump winning.
They just did it because they spy on everybody and everything.
And they've been doing it forever.
The Russians have been screwing us for a long time.
And that is a very serious problem that our securities and our departments and all of the bureaucracy of government should make sure, you know, people cannot meddle in our elections.
But I think that it also does undermine the separate investigation of, you know, is Trump involved with Russia and is he really a liaison of Vladimir Putin?
all these other crazy- Manchurian candidate.
He's this Manchurian candidate, et cetera.
I will flatly say, though, that Carter Page, I mean, there's some shady stuff there.
Whether or not Donald Trump knew about it, I'm gonna err on the side of no, he didn't.
And maybe once they found out, that's why he left the campaign, or maybe because he's just a shady McShaderson, they had him kicked out of the campaign even before they knew of any of his involvement and stuff with the Kremlin.
But I think that, unfortunately, for Hillary Clinton, for the Democrats going forward, specifically in 2018 midterms and 2020, when you know that this is what they wanted to take and run with against President Trump, it's gonna look as if the Mueller investigation is jeopardized by all of this stuff that's happening within the FBI and the DOJ.
It's inevitable.
Even if Mueller really is this man of integrity, even the most upstanding citizen in the room, it just looks awful.
We know it has association with all of this Democrat hackery.
It's really no good.
I sort of feel for the guy, but they have to wrap this up.
It's just...
Who knows?
Some people are saying Donald Trump has to release everything.
He doesn't have to release everything.
He should absolutely not release everything.
He should hold all of his leverage as long as he can, drip, drip, drip, and let Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sweat.
And on that point, Trey Gowdy has now all but admitted that the source of information passed to Hillary's State Department, to be passed to dossier author Christopher Steele, to be passed back to Barack Obama's FBI, was Clinton hatchet man Sid Blumenthal.
That means the entire Russia collusion investigation circus, it could have been funded.
It could have been a charade, funded, orchestrated, and executed by Clinton cronies to undermine Trump's campaign.
Alicia, if Gowdy's suggestion is true, does the FBI investigation into Trump, Russia, collusion, blah, blah, blah, do any of these have credibility?
Do some of them have credibility, but not all of them?
How do we parse this?
It's It's so confusing that my head is in this every day, and sometimes I need to think, okay, wait, no, we're talking about this one, we're not talking about this one.
Oh, gosh.
All the names, all of the details, all of the warrants, all of the drama.
I mean, even all of the congressmen involved at this point.
You have Trey Gowdy that's come out and said this, but then you also have Nunes that wrote the GOP memo about this memo gate of what was said and how the dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrant, etc., And let's just say, when it comes to congressmen, I think that I'm really inclined to believe a Trey Gowdy over a Devin Nunes.
I think that Gowdy has a history of a prosecutor.
He is very good when it comes to Q&A. He's shown that over and over again.
I'm so sad he's not running for re-election.
And so when Gowdy implies that Sidney Blumenthal, who is known, as you mentioned, to be Hillary Clinton's hatchet man, even after, by the way, the Obama administration and President Obama specifically told her when she was at the Department of State that they didn't want her working with good old Sid, she went around the Obama administration's back and kept doing it.
Of course I believe this to be true, mainly because it's coming from trade at Gowdy, but also because it totally fits into the timeline and the narrative and the personality traits of the Clintons.
Do you think people will go to jail for this, or are they just all going to get off clean like the Clintons always seem to do?
I think the latter, unfortunately.
It seems as if anybody with a name and money, whether it's in politics or Hollywood, tends to get away with things that you and I never could or would.
That is true.
Sad.
Sad.
To quote a great man, finally, the most important story of the day, Canada's Kendall Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
He now wants to change the word mankind to peoplekind to make it less sexist.
Here is Prime Minister Kendall.
Maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind.
So we'd like you to...
We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind.
So just to clarify for Prime Minister Ken Dahl and anyone in the audience who has never looked at an Oxford English dictionary, the word man can be gender-neutral.
It is a gender-neutral word.
In the Bible, it is clearly written, in the beginning, God created man, both male and female.
He created them.
Created man, both male and female.
How dare you use the Bible, Michael?
I know, I know.
Patriotic.
A book written by a big Jewish man in the sky.
Outrageous, outrageous.
How dare you?
By the way, because I'm such a political nerd, if I ever, which I never will, sorry mom, I never will, run for office, I would want to be a representative on the federal level, I would want to be called Congressman Krauss, because turns out, like for that very reason that you mentioned, man can be male or female, and in Robert's Rules of Order, it's supposed to be the man.
This congresswoman stuff is crap.
This is the most sensible thing that's been said on my show all day.
Maybe all year.
It's so elementary, except we don't study anything.
Nobody studies grammar or language or anything that was written more than three seconds ago and not texted.
Is political correctness making us all stupider?
Is this a failure of education and how do you fix it?
Of course it's a failure of education.
I mean, I just mentioned Robert's Rules of Order and as educated and awesome as the majority of your audience is, I guarantee you they haven't read it.
Oh, my guy?
Of course they, only because all of my audience lives in the 19th century and puffs on pipes and cigars.
You are right.
Most people have no idea what Robert's Rules of Order is.
Yep.
They don't understand how the three branches of government work, hence the reason everybody freaked out after, you know, Donald Trump actually became president.
They don't understand the importance of those branches, of states' rights, of the basic, you know, principles of the Constitution, or, you know, basic grammar.
Which, listen, I am no grammar queen.
I'm awful at it.
Ben often subtweets me and corrects my grammar within my 140 or 280 character tweets.
That's fine.
I get it.
Hashtag homeschooled.
But there are basic things that have not been taught in our schools for generations.
And now it's going to continue to get worse because they're more worried about saying "ze" versus "he" so they don't offend, you know, less than 1% of the student body.
It is also a crime in some ways.
It's an epidemic that's growing because more people are writing more frequently.
Now we're all texting constantly rather than writing a letter or two per day or dictating or something.
So it's just infecting all of the culture, this terrible grammar and writing and abusive language, which is political correctness.
It's an abusive language.
My question with Trudeau, I've often said that if Trudeau did not exist, we would have to invent him.
Is Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Kendall, Is he trolling us?
You know when he goes down in the little short shorts waving the gay flag?
Is he a cynical politician or is he really the doe-eyed dum-dum that he appears?
No, he is definitely a mix.
I don't know that he's...
Yeah, the answer is yes.
The answer is yes, but I think what you asked, is he a cynical politician or is he as doe-eyed as he appears?
I think it's a mix of both.
I think that the doe-eyedness is potentially part of his cynicism, and he projects that because he knows that it helps his socialist Canada voters.
It helps him, not the whole of the country of Canada, but...
By the way, there's lots of really great Canadian conservatives, and I know that they watch religiously in all these podcasts over here at the Daily Wire.
So, you know, I really like y'all's maple syrup.
That's true.
The greatest living stand-up comedian, Norm MacDonald, is very Canadian.
There you go.
There's lots of amazing comics, but, like, please keep Trudeau.
Don't let that seep into the United States.
As Ben likes to call him, the better-looking Bernie Sanders.
Y'all can keep him.
I hope you vote him out because you deserve better.
Absolutely right.
I only want him to exist from afar.
Magazine covers, waving the flags and the little shorts.
That's fine.
It's when he opens his mouth is the trouble.
Exactly.
We want to be able to point and laugh.
We don't want to have to take responsibility for him.
Absolutely right.
Okay, well, that's it.
I guess if I want to have any political success, I've got to start working out and become a big hunk like him if we're going to fight this.
Oh, son.
Oh, man.
A little behind the scenes.
Just wait for it, people.
This man has thinner legs than I do, and I want to stab out his eyes for it.
That is true.
We've got the conversation coming up next week.
And unfortunately, you will see soon for yourselves.
You're in for a treat.
That's all I can say.
We did the early shoot a couple days ago, and it's a feast for the eyes.
We're going to have some of the audience just spooning out their mind's eye, like blinding themselves.
Okay, that's the show.
Alicia, thank you for being here.
Thanks.
Very illuminating.
That's it.
That is all of it.
I hope that you can now spread a little bit of knowledge to these historically ignorant lefties who tell you it's unprecedented.
And make sure you collect those leftist tears.
Maybe send me a nice vintage.
You know I collect them too.
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